Originally Posted by Gpsma (Post 2102899)

Entertainment in the Town Squares is a big selling point for the villages? Really..maybe to the Disco Dannys and Disco Sallies who want to relive their youth with third rate bands.

Three Town Squares..generally always busy. But with a population now of probably 120,000..they only attract those who want to drink and think they dance like Saturday Night Fever.

Most people who have lived here a while could care less about the town squares unless they are there to dine.

Originally Posted by Davonu (Post 2102913)

This almost sounds like troll stuff. Nobody who has spent any time in The Villages can actually believe this.

What an attitude!!

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna (Post 2102765)

The Developer doesn’t need nightly entertainment in Spanish Springs to attract home buyers anymore. All the development is many miles south. Little marketing benefit would be lost in discontinuing nightly entertainment or events like the monthly drive-in. Those enjoying those events are probably already Villages homeowners, or residents of surrounding communities.

By discontinuing nightly entertainment at Spanish Springs the entire town square could be re-purposed to a large, attractive parking lot. It could be gated with assigned spaces for use by renters in the planned apartments as well as the rumored apartments in the two stories of existing health club space in the La Riena Building. Parking for new apartment renters? Solved! Complaints from renters about too much noise? Solved!

If the movie theatres are re-purposed into a re-located health club as rumored, the main entrance could be in the rear, with parking spaces immediately behind the theater space made private, gated, for use by health club members only.

Complaints would be temporary, coming only from those not likely to be new home buyers. All the businesses in the area, including the Developer-owned Sharon, would likely view the idea favorably. Of course, the Developer owns all the commercial space in the area, so commercial renters would view the idea of less parking pressure very favorably.

New apartments on two floors of the La Riena building is based on a rumor, but it makes sense based on health club employees already having been told of the relocation plan to the theatre space when the health club lease in the La Riena building expires.

Negatives to the idea?

Originally Posted by Dotneko (Post 2102915)

We have lived here almost 2 years now. The times we go to the squares are to eat, visit the stores and go to the Brownwood farmers market on Saturday mornings. Listen to music - twice for about 5 minutes. Not interested. We go to driveway parties if we want to hear someone play and chat with our neighbors. The music on the squares was not a selling feature to us.
Oh, we go to Spanish Springs to bowl. We live in St Cats.

Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna (Post 2102765)

The Developer doesn’t need nightly entertainment in Spanish Springs to attract home buyers anymore. All the development is many miles south. Little marketing benefit would be lost in discontinuing nightly entertainment or events like the monthly drive-in. Those enjoying those events are probably already Villages homeowners, or residents of surrounding communities.

By discontinuing nightly entertainment at Spanish Springs the entire town square could be re-purposed to a large, attractive parking lot. It could be gated with assigned spaces for use by renters in the planned apartments as well as the rumored apartments in the two stories of existing health club space in the La Riena Building. Parking for new apartment renters? Solved! Complaints from renters about too much noise? Solved!

If the movie theatres are re-purposed into a re-located health club as rumored, the main entrance could be in the rear, with parking spaces immediately behind the theater space made private, gated, for use by health club members only.

Complaints would be temporary, coming only from those not likely to be new home buyers. All the businesses in the area, including the Developer-owned Sharon, would likely view the idea favorably. Of course, the Developer owns all the commercial space in the area, so commercial renters would view the idea of less parking pressure very favorably.

New apartments on two floors of the La Riena building is based on a rumor, but it makes sense based on health club employees already having been told of the relocation plan to the theatre space when the health club lease in the La Riena building expires.

Negatives to the idea?

Originally Posted by mtdjed (Post 2102809)

There will be 16 parking spaces dedicated for apartment dwellers and their guests.

Originally Posted by Jayhawk (Post 2102933)

If everything I read about Katie Belle's popularity is true, the many customers surely took up a lot more than 16 parking spaces every day, all day long. With KB gone, what's the problem?

Originally Posted by Jayhawk (Post 2102933)

If everything I read about Katie Belle's popularity is true, the many customers surely took up a lot more than 16 parking spaces every day, all day long. With KB gone, what's the problem?

Originally Posted by Davonu (Post 2102913)

This almost sounds like troll stuff. Nobody who has spent any time in The Villages can actually believe this.

What an attitude!!

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2102973)

But, they didn’t have reserved parking out front, they to find spot like everyone else going to square. I don’t see why apartment dwellers can’t park behind buildings. I wouldn’t want to leave my car sitting on square all time. But, that’s me.

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 2102974)

Only sounds like that to vacationer’s, majority of villager’s full time resident’s don’t go to squares that much, otherwise there would be 50K plus at squares nightly. It’s get old for most of use that are not drunks or womanizer’s.

Originally Posted by justjim (Post 2102991)

You could build a four story parking garage in place of the current paved lot (parking solved) and keep the Square intact. I have no crystal ball and have no idea if a parking garage is on the table but I don’t see them taking down Harold Schwartz’s statue and what we know as Town Square at Spanish Springs. Too much history there.